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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Chapter 4, pgs. 76-87.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What skills did the training of Company D focus on?
(a) Light infantry.
(b) Tank driving.
(c) Heave infantry.
(d) Naval warfare.

2. Where would the 3rd Para Brigade drop according to Howard's orders?
(a) North of the Caen car company headquarters.
(b) East of the Clayton ravine.
(c) South of the Le Mesnil forest.
(d) South of the Caen Forest.

3. Where did Company D go at the end of May 1944?
(a) Cork.
(b) Hastings.
(c) Weymouth.
(d) Tarrant Rushton.

4. Who visited Company D at the beginning of June,1944?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) General Gale.
(c) The queen.
(d) Montgomery and Gale.

5. What was the difference between the training regiment of the men and that of the officers?
(a) The officers did not have to speak German.
(b) The officers didn't need to be physically fit.
(c) There was not a difference.
(d) The officers didn't need to be able to think quickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was in charge of planning the Allied invasion of Europe in 1943?

2. What division was Von Luck commanding in the fall of 1943?

3. Whom did Helmet Romer relieve?

4. How was the Allied war effort going in 1942, according to the start of Chapter 2?

5. Howard decided that _______________ would lead the platoon across the bridge.

(see the answer key)

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